April 28, 2017
Five years ago I entered my first bodybuilding competition and it changed my entire life. During preparation I learned about nutrition, strength training, time management and how to push through...
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April 24, 2017April 24, 2017
It’s 13 weeks out until my next competition, a Musclemania / Fitness Universe bikini competition in Costa Rica. Yesterday I drove to Houston (2.5 hours each way) to take a...
April 12, 2017
Can I tell you a secret? I’m so deliriously happy that I’m not doing a bodybuilding bikini competition until July!!! I usually do competitions April, May and June and it’s...
March 28, 2017
It’s 17 weeks until my next competition and I’m feeling something I haven’t felt in a long time: joy. For much of last year my competition prep seemed like a...
March 15, 2017
My Body is a Science Project My original concept of bodybuilding was Hanz und Franz from SNL dropping dumbbells and saying they wanted to “Pump. You Up!” I had no...
March 6, 2017
My husband’s words of advice to me when I signed up to do my first bodybuilding competition were, “Don’t lift too heavy! You don’t want to look scary.” Ha! I...
January 5, 2017November 5, 2018
Before bodybuilding I used to think that to get six-pack abs you needed to do a thousand sit ups a day, or run a marathon, or some crazy amount of...
December 2, 2016
When you train for a bodybuilding competition you spend weeks, if not months, dedicating time, money and energy into it. It can manage to seep into all aspects of your...
November 29, 2016
I always kind of wondered what it would be like to be a super model; to be six feet tall with perfect hair and look sultry in photos in exotic...
November 1, 2016
It’s November, or as I like to call it, Dear-God-let-this-election-be-over-and-then-I-have-how-many-days-to-go-Christmas-shopping??? Or, you know, November. Last month I wrote up some goals, so let’s circle back to see how I did:...
October 26, 2016
Hungry + Angry = Hangry and that’s what I am today. My Vegas bodybuilding competition is just around the corner which means my diet has entered the “I’m pissed off...
September 6, 2016
It’s 10 weeks until my next bodybuilding bikini competition. This time I’m doing a different division (sports model) with the Musclemania/ Model Universe federation. For this division there are three...
August 11, 2016August 11, 2016
Bodybuilding is a sport like no other because it combines hardcore badass weight lifting with the pageantry of a modelling competition, complete with sparkly costumes, make-up and lots of photos....
August 4, 2016
Everywhere you look there are signs for back to school sales, bringing a collective sigh to children and a sense of shock to parents that summer is indeed coming to...
July 23, 2016
Sometimes people ask me how I made it through my first bodybuilding show, considering I was middle aged, overweight and had never done anything remotely similar in the past. My...
June 21, 2016June 21, 2016
American Grit has been over for a few weeks now and I’m back to my hum-drum #momlife of folding laundry and paying bills. That’s far too boring for me so...
